Search Results - "Colunga, Eliana"

Editorial: The role of experience in children's language development: A cultural perspective by Sperry, Douglas, Shimpi, Priya, Colunga, Eliana, Song, Lulu, Sun, He

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Network Growth Modeling to Capture Individual Lexical Learning by Beckage, Nicole M., Colunga, Eliana

“…Network models of language provide a systematic way of linking cognitive processes to the structure and connectivity of language. Using network growth models…”
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From the Lexicon to Expectations About Kinds: A Role for Associative Learning by Colunga, Eliana, Smith, Linda B

“…In the novel noun generalization task, 2 1/2-year-old children display generalized expectations about how solid and nonsolid things are named, extending names…”
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More than a matter of getting 'unstuck': flexible thinkers use more abstract representations than perseverators by Kharitonova, Maria, Chien, Sarina, Colunga, Eliana, Munakata, Yuko

“…Why do people perseverate, repeating prior behaviours that are no longer appropriate? Many accounts point to isolated deficits in processes such as inhibition…”
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Teacher implementation of an individualised vocabulary intervention programme for dual language learners in a preschool classroom by Kan, Pui Fong, Colunga, Eliana, Weber, Jennifer, Huang, Shirley

“…This study explored the feasibility of implementing an individualised vocabulary intervention for dual language learners through teachers, who leverage their…”
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Not Only Size Matters: Early‐Talker and Late‐Talker Vocabularies Support Different Word‐Learning Biases in Babies and Networks by Colunga, Eliana, Sims, Clare E.

“…In typical development, word learning goes from slow and laborious to fast and seemingly effortless. Typically developing 2‐year‐olds seem to intuit the whole…”
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Knowledge as Process: Contextually Cued Attention and Early Word Learning by Smith, Linda B., Colunga, Eliana, Yoshida, Hanako

“…Learning depends on attention. The processes that cue attention in the moment dynamically integrate learned regularities and immediate contextual cues. This…”
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Changing the Culture of Peer Review for a More Inclusive and Equitable Psychological Science by Aly, Mariam, Colunga, Eliana, Crockett, M. J., Goldrick, Matthew, Gomez, Pablo, Kung, Franki Y. H., McKee, Paul C., Pérez, Miriam, Stilwell, Sarah M., Diekman, Amanda B.

“…Peer review is a core component of scientific practice. Although peer review ideally improves research and promotes rigor, it also has consequences for what…”
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It’s time to talk about scholarly harassment by Gruber, June, Jurow, A. Susan, Colunga, Eliana, Sabeti, Pardis, King, Laura A.

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Quantifying the Role of Vocabulary Knowledge in Predicting Future Word Learning by Beckage, Nicole M., Mozer, Michael C., Colunga, Eliana

“…Can we predict the words a child is going to learn next given information about the words that a child knows now? Do different representations of a child's…”
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Reproducibility and a unifying explanation: Lessons from the shape bias by Kucker, Sarah C., Samuelson, Larissa K., Perry, Lynn K., Yoshida, Hanako, Colunga, Eliana, Lorenz, Megan G., Smith, Linda B.

“…•Individual experiments and replications form the basis of scientific inquiry, but limits inherent in a single result only advance science so far.•We advance…”
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Bilingual and monolingual children attend to different cues when learning new words by Brojde, Chandra L, Ahmed, Sabeen, Colunga, Eliana

“…The way in which children learn language can vary depending on their language environment. Previous work suggests that bilingual children may be more sensitive…”
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Knowledge embedded in process: the self-organization of skilled noun learning by Colunga, Eliana, Smith, Linda B.

“…Young children's skilled generalization of newly learned nouns to new instances has become the battleground for two very different approaches to cognition…”
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Erratum to: Words can slow down category learning by Brojde, Chandra L., Porter, Chelsea, Colunga, Eliana

“…Abstract Words have been shown to influence many cognitive tasks, including category learning…”
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Mentorship practices that improve the culture of peer review by Aly, Mariam, Ansari, Shahana, Colunga, Eliana, Crockett, M. J., Diekman, Amanda B., Goldrick, Matthew, Gomez, Pablo, Kung, Franki Y. H., McKee, Paul C., Pérez, Miriam, Stilwell, Sarah M.

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Words can slow down category learning by Brojde, Chandra L., Porter, Chelsea, Colunga, Eliana

“…Words have been shown to influence many cognitive tasks, including category learning. Most demonstrations of these effects have focused on instances in which…”
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Knowledge as Process: Contextually Cued Attention and Early Word Learning: Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Domain-General Learning or Domain-Specific Constraints? by SMITH, Linda B, COLUNGA, Eliana, YOSHIDA, Hanako

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Beyond modeling abstractions: learning nouns over developmental time in atypical populations and individuals by Sims, Clare E, Schilling, Savannah M, Colunga, Eliana

“…Connectionist models that capture developmental change over time have much to offer in the field of language development research. Several models in the…”
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Flexibility and variability: Essential to human cognition and the study of human cognition by Colunga, Eliana, Smith, Linda B.

“…Traditional theories of cognition concentrate on the problem of stability, how it is that people perform the same cognitive act over and over despite different…”
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On the Automatic Generation and Simplification of Children's Stories by Valentini, Maria, Weber, Jennifer, Salcido, Jesus, Wright, Téa, Colunga, Eliana, Kann, Katharina

“…With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the concept of automatically generating children's educational materials has become increasingly…”
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